Looking for Smithsonian Quests?

Smithsonian Quests have been "reimagined" to be more media-rich and more flexible than the program you remember from 2012 through 2015. Those Quests were projects based on Smithsonian collections and expertise. Students worked under the guidance of our staff and teacher experts.

More than five thousand students from around the world submitted original multimedia projects and earned digital badges. Now, in the Smithsonian Learning Lab, teachers can:

use or adapt the Smithsonian's online activities to meet their students' needs

discover how other teachers are using and adapting these activities

author and publish their own online activities using Smithsonian resources

assign activities to a roster of students

The building blocks of these activities will be more than 1.3 million Smithsonian digital resources: artworks, photos, videos, texts, and more. Smithsonian staff members are now working to rebuild the most popular Smithsonian Quest activities into Learning Lab collections.